The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-01-20

The largest tree in California is in
| Tulare County, and is $50 feet high,
and the trunk is 1873 feet in circum-
ference. 1t is called The Father of
the Forest"
Many explosions in Touring mills are
said to have been caused BIZ electricity
generated by belts. Even ordinary
belts are found to generate sufficiently
| experiments for which electrical ma
chimes are used.
One of the leading charities of New
Orleans is called the Society of the
| Ladies Servants of the Poor" 1t was
established in 1861, the first year of the
| rebellion, to assist destitute families of
responsibility and provide for the wants
OF old and intirm gentlew0men.
| Senator Fair owns the South Pacific
| Coast Railroad. and recently proposed
| to sell it to the Southern Pacific Com
pany for 100000. Upon the COM
| pany expressing a willingness to take
| the road at this price the thrifty Senator
advanced his figures to $4,000, 900, and
the sale is of.
The Life of Oliver p Norton"
edited by his son, Is to be issued next
| year. Among those who are to write
monographs for the work touching
various phases of the statesman's career
are Gen. Lew Wallace, Gen. H. b. Car
rington, eX-Postmaster-General Tyner,
and Senators ingalls,, Allison, McMil-
Ian, and Hoar.
| Cardinal Simon, of Gran, the primate
of Hungary, was a.son of poor shoe
| maker. Now he enjoys the reputation
of being the richest of the Hungarian
prelates 1t was TO him that Plus TX.
addressed at the ecumenial council the
| half-reproachful remark: You are too
| rich. " Last month he celebrated the
tiftieth anniversary of his priesthood.
The only pack animal in Jackrabbit
district, says tue Phoebe (Nev.) Record,
is squaw She packs all the wood on
her back down the mountains to the
cabins of the prospectors, packs up the
| packages and bundles sent out from
Phoebe by stage from the station at the
road to the camp, and frequently packs
off things that she finds lying around
loose.
A patent has been obtained by gen.
lltllGu III Gan IituClGCO IDl " udI -
claimed 10 be lire and cOllision-proof
railway car. 1t is made wholly OF iron
and steel, and the weight will range
from sixteen to twenty tons for ordinary
passenger coaches, and from twenty
two to twenty-five tons for Sleepers
The floor is a single sheet of metal, and
the roof also a single sheet The beams
are of rolled steel.
Many of the Flathead5, on their reser-
walton in northwest Montana, says q
writer in the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
are given to dudish ways. For instance,
thew wear good clothes, own fast step
pers. possess the showiest kind of
blankets and carry plenty of silver.
Some of them own one or more race
| horses, and DO nothing else for living
except gamble with each other, on the
result of race, but principally with
outsiders.
There IS at Leeds, England, ali orni-
| theological association. Among other
| things they study the songs of wild
birds Not long ago they pitted iull-
| song, acclimsted nightingale against a
Yankee hooking bird. They sang to-
| gether, and they sang apart First the
| nightingale led of, until everything he
| sang was duplicated and improved
upon by our national songster. Then
| the mocking bird struck Oft into new
field of song. The nightingale listened,
! ! hut did not repeat He pined away and
| died within a week.
John c. Anderson. the New York to-
| bacconist. went to New Haven, Conn,
| a few years ago, built for himself the
| finest private residence in the city, and
| furnished it magniiicently. Recently
| he has preferred to live ut a shore house
| at West Haven, and last week an auc-
| ton sale was held of the furniture and
ornaments Of the mansion. Three
thousand people attended the sale. In
general tho prices realized were low. A
fine orchestrion, which is said to have
cost $4,000 in Europe, was sold for
$3.50.
When the first photograph of the late
| Prime Minister in his tree-felling deS-
babAe came out an American journal
ist got 4 copy and was hesitating 10
send 1t across the Atlantic because he
thought it WAS hoax. He showed the
photograph to friend OF Mr.. Glad
| stone, explaining bis doubts. The
friend looked at it through Il magnify
ing glass and pointed to the absence of
the tOreinger OF the left hand as proof
that it was genuine. Few people know
that Mr.. Gladstone was at one time
| SPORTSMAN as well as a statesman, and
that the ,,"ss OF 4 finger was due TO an
accidental explosion OF his gun.
A method of utilizing paper is the
process of manufacturing paper rails,
which is to be adopted in the paper rail
works at ST. Petersburg. 1t is claimed
that these can be made at one-third the
price of steel rails and that they are
very durable, the paper being condensed
by great pressure. Being lighter than
metal, they can be carried and laid at
much less cost. They are made of
greater length than ordinary rails, and
the oscillation and wear and tear of
rolling stock will be proportionately
diminished The question Of durability
will be the principal one to be settled.
A paragraph in the papers of last
| month announced that there were a
number OF Young men who were mill
ionaires in the city of Portland. Ore. A
prominent man in that place received
| letter from young lady in Ohio, in
forming him that there were young
| wonian in that city who would like the
names If the milliouaires, that they
might open d correspondence with a
view to matrimony. The Portland man
replied that though young, said mill
ionaires were all married. out addresses